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Cambodia: Deportation of Montagnard Refugees to Vietnam
Human Rights Watch today denounced the Cambodian government’s forced expulsions of at least eighty-nine indigenous minority asylum seekers from the Central Highlands of Vietnam, and called for immediate measures to protect other refugees who may be at risk. Seventy people have been expelled in the last ten days alone.
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CHRAC Calls for Amendments to Law on the Creation of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), which comprises 18 NGOs wishes to call on the Royal Government, the National Assembly and the Senate to comply with the remarks by the Constitutional Council on the Law on the creation of an extraordinary chamber for the trial of Khmer Rouge leaders, and amend it accordingly and adopt this amendment without further delay. CHRAC would like to request the Royal Government to incorporate in the amendment those provisions of the agreement on the Khmer Rouge Trial reached between the Royal Government and the United Nations that had been left out in the original draft of that law.
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Cambodia: Verdict A Setback for Indigenous Land Rights
Human Rights Watch today expressed strong concern about a provincial court ruling in the highlands of northeasern Cambodian that dispossesses more than 900 indigenous people of their ancestral lands. On March 23, the provincial court in Ratanakiri province ruled against a civil complaint brought by ethnic Jarai and Tampuen people in three villages.
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Cambodian Human Rights Workers Intimidated, Threatened with Arrest
New York -- Human Rights Watch today condemned threats of arrest against staff members of the Cambodian human rights organization Licadho (the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights). The threats are reportedly because of its role in providing humanitarian assistance to victims of labor abuse, including ethnic Vietnamese minorities.
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Human Rights Watch Condemns Rearrest Campaign in Cambodia
(New York) -- Human Rights Watch today condemned the widespread rearrests of people previously released from prison by the courts in Cambodia. The rearrests were ordered by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on December 3, 1999. The organization also expressed strong concern about the safety and whereabouts of some of the fifty-four people arrested. Some of the court officials, who approved the prison releases, have received threats since the rearrests began.
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